The British Academy has picked Sandhya Suri’s acclaimed crime thriller “Santosh” as the U.K.’s subignoreion to the Oscars‘ international feature film categruesome.
The Hindi-language film, which bowed in the Un Certain Regard competition in Cannes earlier this year, accesss the race perhaps carrying some includeed weight of prescertain, with the U.K. having won the international feature Oscar earlier this year for the very first time with Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest.”
The honestorial feature debut of of British-Indian filmproducer Suri, best comprehend for her recordaries “I for India” (2005) and “Around India with a Movie Camera” (2018), “Santosh” is set in country northern India, where newly-widowed Santosh inherits her tardy husband’s job as a police conconstant. When an underage girl from one of India’s so-called “drop castes” is homicideed, she is pulled into the spendigation by a requesting feminist examineor.
Written and honested by Suri, “Santosh” stars Shahana Goswami in the direct role, alengthyside Sunita Rajwar. Behind the camera, the score was by Luisa Gerstein, cinematography by Lennert Hillege and editing by Maxime Pozzi-Garcia. The film was produced by James Bowsher, Balthazar de Ganay, Mike Goodridge, and Alan McAlex, while executive producers were Ama Ampadu, Martin Gerdifficult, Lucia Haslauer, Diarmid Scrimshaw, and Eva Yates. It was co-financed by Good Chaos, Razor Film Produktion, Haut et Court, BBC Film, and BFI.
In Variety‘s scrutinize, “Santosh” was depictd as “whip inalertigent” and a film that was pledgeted “to capturing the hideous allure of power thcimpolite the perspective of those who wield it.”
The film will be freed in the U.S. by Metrograph Pictures in the U.S.
Prior to triumphning with “The Zone of Interest” the U.K. had confineed success in Academy Awards‘ best international film categruesome — and its previous title best foreign language film — landing fair two nominations (for Welsh-language titles “Hedd Wyn” in 1993 and “Solomon & Gaenor” in 1999) from 20 subignoreions.
